Marc Mezzacca

e-commerce / startups / coding

Slack clearly isn't a 1-star app, so why is it showing that way? Whenever you update your iOS app on iTunes store, the current ratings section is resets to "We have not received enough ratings to display an average for the current version of this application" This also causes the…

Everyone I know speaks highly of Prime. In fact, I've never met any Prime member that's told me they've stopped using. Some even equate it's purchase addictiveness to the likes of cocaine. So naturally expectations were high when Amazon announced and started massively marketing "Prime Day". With great power comes…

Shopping from your mobile or tablet this holiday season? Yeah, I've been sucked into doing it more than I wish to admit too. So here's a few iOS 8 extensions to help alleviate some frustrations (from the perspective of my shopping thought process). These extensions are available right from within…

Yesterday was Cyber Monday and the day our browser extension hit #1 on Product Hunt -- thanks to the somewhat skinny, somewhat bald Ben Fisher who hunted it, some friends from WeWork, and to a large army of bargain-hungry product hunters. If there's one thing for certain I've learned from…

Coupons.com has been around for over a decade and a and half, since 1998 to be exact. It came well before many coupon competitors. RetailMeNot, heck BugMeNot, wasn't even a thought at the time. But as far as online couponing goes, it is still rather new. It's core focus…

UPDATE: As of May 18, 2015 PoachIt has also sent notice that it will shut down. Many felt the Hukkster shut down was out of no where... probably because it was. Lots of twitter buzz. And equally as sudden, other price alert services coming out of the woodwork. Let's see…